Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring rains, said the report, a wide 1,500-mile swath curving from Oklahoma to Michigan and northern New York-one-quarter of all U.S. crop acreage -was now drenched. Some 4,000,000 acres had been flooded and knocked out of production for weeks. Farther west, in southwestern Kansas, South Dakota and the great pasture lands from Texas to southern Colorado, there was drought. Over the nation, crop prospects were the poorest in three years-result of the most unseasonable spring in years...
...MacArthur officers, Lieut. General George C. Kenney and Major General Richard K. Sutherland, had just returned to Australia from staff talks in Washington. The tone of General MacArthur's prayer indicated that he was not to be allowed enough power to drive up through Japan's southwestern bases, to the Philippines and Bataan...
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA--American fighter plane pilots and Australian anti-aircraft gunners scored the greatest air victory of the southwestern Pacific campaign today, destroying 41 Japanese planes in two hours...
...frozen" in their jobs. The order does not force any person to stay at his present job, does make him provide good & ample reasons for wanting to change. In the works were similar freezings of 110,000 merchant seamen, 1,500,000 West Coast aircraft workers, and thousands of Southwestern railroad track workers. But these are only samples of what must still come...
...Indian children on northwestern reservations are, toothwise, more decadent than those on southwestern reservations...